State-owned Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed is in­ves­ti­gat­ing yet an­oth­er oil spill—this time in Tarou­ba—even as Gov­ern­ment faces crit­i­cism over its han­dling of a sep­a­rate off­shore spill that af­fect­ed wa­ters near Venezuela.

A 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man, were ar­rest­ed and are ex­pect­ed to be charged af­ter they al­leged­ly stole a $5,000 gold bracelet from a busi­ness­woman in Princes Town on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Res­i­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing urged to se­cure loose out­door items and ex­er­cise cau­tion as a Yel­low Lev­el High Wind Alert re­mains in ef­fect from 10:00 am on Fri­day, May 15, un­til 2:00 pm on Sun­day, May 17.

A 25-year-old man was killed and two oth­ers wound­ed in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Arou­ca on Thurs­day night.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says teach­ers are still with­out a clear time­line for re­ceiv­ing salary ar­rears and back­pay for the 2020-2023 pe­ri­od, de­spite as­sur­ances from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion that cal­cu­la­tions are al­most com­plete.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says it is time for Trinidad and To­ba­go to be­gin tak­ing the pro­tec­tion of its politi­cians se­ri­ous­ly, ar­gu­ing that last week’s al­leged threat against par­lia­men­tar­i­ans high­lights that se­cu­ri­ty de­tails are not a lux­u­ry, but a ne­ces­si­ty.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that State se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­cu­ri­ty-re­lat­ed mat­ter in­volv­ing a car­go air­craft at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Au­thor­i­ties are con­duct­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions af­ter an air­craft car­ry­ing ex­plo­sives land­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port last night.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) on Thurs­day to dis­cuss sev­er­al is­sues af­fect­ing teach­ers, schools and the wider ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel as­signed to the Par­lia­ment, as well as in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cers with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, say they are in the dark con­cern­ing any threats against Gov­ern­ment MPs or min­is­ters.

The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is warn­ing that an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE) ex­ten­sion is on its way.

State en­ti­ty Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Lim­it­ed is fac­ing fresh con­tro­ver­sy, this time not over the award­ing of con­tracts but grow­ing scruti­ny sur­round­ing the com­po­si­tion of its board.